Re: kern/45830: reading :dev/mem panics an i386 domU

To: Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang%Solfrank.net@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/45830: reading :dev/mem panics an i386 domU
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:20:41 +0100

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:09:33PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Forwarding my reply to your question on tech-kern to place it
> into the PR:)
> 
> No, this is not a bug, especially not, if this is run by root.

It is a bug, the NetBSD kernel should not ask the hypervisor to
map memory it's not allowed to map.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--

References:
- kern/45830: reading :dev/mem panics an i386 domU
  - From: manu
- Re: kern/45830: reading :dev/mem panics an i386 domU
  - From: Wolfgang Solfrank

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